OT: New Intro Profile

[kumayama]

THE OLD CROWD – INTRO

First, Thank You Barry--it's good to be able to follow your postings
again! I"m so very pleased to find so many other names here that I
recognize and value.

***Name:
Lyn Mangiameli

***Nicknames/IDs:
Lyn works just fine, or kumayama
Bit of initial trivia: Kumayama was the name of an Akita who was a
member of our pack for 
15 years. It is Mountain Bear in Japanese, which was a fitting title,
as he lived in the Sierra 
Nevada mountains with us for most of his life and made it to the
topof quite a few of the 
High Sierra peaks.

***Age:
53 for a short while longer.

***Family:
My wife, companion and colleague of the past 33 years, Ashley. An
adolescent Akita (named Pookha) and a Hedgehog (current one named
Olivander
Pygwheelian Hedgehog -- we had one before him named Hufflepuff which
was very fitting 
if you know hedgehogs)   

***Home
Silicon Valley

***Birthday, Place of Birth:
Omaha Nebraska, USA

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
Ph.D. / Forensic Clinical Neuropsychologist

***Other things we might want to know about you:
Hard to anticipate what others might want to know, so encourage
others to ask publicly or privately as they wish.   

***First contact with Harry Potter:
Other than press reports, it was watching the first HP movie shortly
after its theatrical release. This lead to immediately acquiring
every HP book
available and reading them to my wife.

***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships, fics, objets
d'Art, general enthusing):
Just the books themselves and the world incorporated therein. I'm
fond of the way the books focus on moral choice and individual effort.

***Favourite character(s): 
HP and Hermione

***Ships –
I'd be  pleased to see an HP/Hermione union, but mostly I just hope
to be amused and  satisfied with the way JKR develops her choice. 

***Fics: 
If this refers to fanfics, I've never read any and don't care to. 

***Extent of Potter obsession:
I would consider myself to be more intruiged and appreciative, than
obsessed. I suppose 
my checking of two or more HP websites everyday and making (often
futile) efforts to keep 
up with many of the threads in the HP4GU group probably belies any
dispassionate 
detachment. 

***Other interests/activities:
Woodturning and woodworking (I'm probably better know on the internet
for my writings in this area than I am for my professional
endeavors). Being in
deserts, canyons, and above treeline in mountains, whether on foot or
by vehicle.  

***Current/recent reading:
Well, I just finished a Muscle and Fitness magazine, before that it
was a book on the neurology of vision. I'd say "eclectic" would
better describe my
reading tastes than any title or genre.

***Current/recent listening:
Mostly whatever is on the old rock or jazz channels on Sirius.

***Current/recent viewing:
 Fox News.